The re­view’s terms of ref­er­ence are still be­ing fi­nalised, but Gen­eral Evans will con­sult De­fence per­son­nel, fam­ily mem­bers and other stake­hold­ers as part of the re­view, ex­pected to be re­leased to the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment early next year.

Ms Bishop said she had spo­ken with SAS fam­i­lies and Swan­bourne res­i­dents and was con­cerned about sev­eral is­sues.

“So I spoke to Stu­art Robert (for­mer as­sis­tant de­fence min­is­ter) and Dar­ren Ch­ester and told them a re­view would be well re­ceived,” she said.